Houston traffic is always a nightmare. Nothing new. So glad I moved. The biggest traffick jam I face on my commute to work... is waiting for a moose or wild turkeys to cross the road. I'm cool with that.
@@whiterollone Right I think that we should also have bike lanes more available and public transportation really needs to be bigger in an outside of Houston. It's not very common if you're not in the medical center and it's harder to get around.
It only takes one, even a minor accident will cause a massive traffic jam in Houston TX during the work week. Even in back streets still backed up like crazy. All that for a little car fire.
These freeways are hell on Earth, there's always some accident somewhere and you can get stuck so easily it's nauseating, public transport is so much more convenient and comfortable even though you share space with other people
Houston should do what Dallas do, they have lawnscape and plants covering the medium of freeways so when there an accident the people on the other side don't hold traffic staring and recording on their phones... causing more traffic
Or they could demolish all those ridiculously wide freeways. Look at Europe. You will never see such a freeway. Still people get around with much more ease than in North America.
In true urban areas your commute is either a walk or sitting on a train while reading a book, listening to music or taking a short nap. This is what happens when your urban areas aren’t actually urban areas.
In the US it seems the 2 main options are massive ugly highways and congestion or living so remote you have no access to basic stuff around you. It does not have to be that way...
put trains on HOV stop making more lanes on highways Hold slow moving cars in the far left accountable add side walks and bike lanes make more sub roads to prevent back ups in 1 spot (1960 in humble) space lights apart a little extra. keep schools off main roads keep parents from parking along side roads 2 hours before school even let out. OH THERES SOOO MUCH STUFF THAT CAN REDUCE TRAFFIC BUT MORE LANES SEEM TO FIX THE PROBLEM EHH?
If they place any kind of rail transit on the HOV lanes, I would love to see some routes from the suburbs like Sugarland to the Medical Center, Galleria, Downtown, etc.
No we just need to make it an actual real challenging test in order to get your license then make driving without a license basically punishable by Death
So many comments about this being an example of bad Houston traffic seem to miss the fact 4 of 5 lanes are blocked during rush hour. The same type of backups can happen anywhere under those conditions.
The issue isn't the lanes, its the garbage use of them where they blocked 4 good lanes, never let anyone on the express lanes temporary for free. You could have 532 lanes, but what good are they if a 1 car accident is going to mysteriously block 529 lanes. I blame the Houston police for this.
netherlands didint build there entire city out of a house style meant to be in the countryside, to be fair not every american city is this bad, chicago, NYC, and D.C have decent to good public transport, the same cant be said about most of america
Somehow Tokyo doesn't have these same issues with 30 million more people in the metro area. How have we, the richest country on the planet, not figured out bullet trains and modern commuter rail.
U guys are blessed with a mostly even terrain in your cities, and yet there is no political will to use like 2 lanes of those monstrous highways for a metro/train line. Such a shame.
"just one more lane bro. i promise bro just one more lane and it'll fix everything bro. bro... just one more lane. please just one more. one more lane and we can fix this whole problem bro. bro c'mon just give me one more lane i promise bro. bro bro please i just need one more lane"
Thanks but this gets repeated a dozen times here & on other similar vids by folks who beat us to the punch. How about we just hit THEIR like & make their number more impressive than watering down the comments column
When the most massive highway in the nation is still ‘too small’ & yet you call for MORE LANES bahaha. Induced demand solves nothing. It’s long past time to build up alternative means.
I've lived in Houston nearly 35 years and watched it grow. Most are not illegal but come from states where they're stupid enough to think Texas is an improvement.
@@haj8579 that and much more. Houston is like 50 different cities while San Antonio is just one and soo spread out. 15 minutes of driving gets you to far more places in Houston than that same drive time over the inclines of San Antonio. Public transport is 100% homeless in SA while bus riders actually get around decently in Uptown, Montrose, Downtown, Memorial, University Place, Kirby, out in Sugar Land, etc While Hot-As-Shit San Antonio is simultaneously spread out and cramped. Im living back in San Antonio though, you cant pay me enough to live in the dangerous air quality of Houston. Last time I was there, I couldnt breathe there outside! Third Ward, but that’s seconds away everywhere!
Induced demand proves that adding lanes allows more people to be on the road and therefore more people can get to where they want to go. If you want a public transport nightmare go live in Chicago or new york and see how much traffic is there.
@@rodrigohackos9119 They expanded the Katy freeway under the guise that it would reduce traffic. It did the opposite. That's not a win, that's a multi-billion dollar sham. TxDOT lies about the benefits of their projects in order to push their disastrous projects forward.
@@rodrigohackos9119 You have literally used the OPPOSITE meaning behind Induced Demand! This concept means the sprawl and congestion NEVER END & require that $$billions$$ are continuously spent to recreate what started the problem in the first place.
@@rodrigohackos9119Technically true, but it also is true of trains, bikeways, and walk routes. The difference is, these can actually handle the influx of new users without jamming, or can improve service quality with the money they bring in. Neither is true for roads. A train rider wants increased ridership because this means better stations and more frequent train service. No road rider wants more people on their roads with the hope that they'll build more lanes.
Actually it's worse, much worse. I've driven in Houston and in L.A. many times. L.A. traffic is bad, yes, but not always. Houston traffic is absolutely horrific ALL THE TIME!
This clearly needs more lanes!
Adding more lanes didn't solve the problem in the past. What makes you think it will help in the future?
@@whiterollone I’m being sarcastic 😁
4 more lanes in either direction will fix it I reckon
Needs an HOV lane
JUST ONE MORE LANE BRO! I SWEAR WE'RE GONNA FIX TRAFFIC! JUST ONE MORE LANE AND TRAFFIC WILL BE SOLVED, BRO!
When you build cities for cars instead of people
And it aint good for cars 😂
Houston doesn’t work for either
But who drives the cars
*just one more lane i promise it'll fix traffic just one more lane*
It's like saying "just one more puff and I'll quit smoking, just one more puff" :)
Ok no just TWO more lanes…
That’ll do it.
I’m certain.
@@azureavocado5195 just a third extra lane, that'll do it, promise
Bigger cars as well, for safety you know
99% urban planners stop adding lanes before fixing traffic
Houston traffic is always a nightmare. Nothing new. So glad I moved. The biggest traffick jam I face on my commute to work... is waiting for a moose or wild turkeys to cross the road. I'm cool with that.
Need to add more lanes
Some freeways are worse than others. I-10 West and I-45 inside the Beltway are particularly bad...
You are a wise woman.
This nonsense is too much to bear.
Overpopulation + crime = a city not worth living in.
@@azureavocado5195 also we are just too car dependent. It wouldn’t be as big an issue if we had more public transport.
@@jayasmrmore3687 Preach!
Add more lanes bro! I swear it'll fix traffic!
Just add more Lanes!!!
Car centricity is the way, it is FREEDOM!!!
Gah, traffic is always crappy. Too many people moving to Houston and Texas 😅
LA is still worse
Too much money being invested in car infrastructure instead of public transit.
@@whiterollone Right I think that we should also have bike lanes more available and public transportation really needs to be bigger in an outside of Houston. It's not very common if you're not in the medical center and it's harder to get around.
It’s not too many people, just too many cars. Trains, subways, trams… would help
@@marcl4701 They have that one near the galleria that is supposed to be really nice and apparently not a lot of people use it.
It only takes one, even a minor accident will cause a massive traffic jam in Houston TX during the work week. Even in back streets still backed up like crazy. All that for a little car fire.
looks like a typical day in California
Nah. /
Moved to a rural town here in East Texas. Don’t miss big city drama and traffic at all.
Need to make bigger roads
@@ajax7ox729 yes one more lane, just one more lane 😂
@@ajax7ox729 the very structure of cities needs to be rethought. More lanes will not solve the problem
it doesn't have to be this way. it's only bc this stupid country is obsessed with cars
@@grassytramtracks Bru whot tha hel ar u saing??!!?? on mor lane will solbe all this
This is why I absolutely LOVE living in Kingwood and commute north of Houston for work.
These freeways are hell on Earth, there's always some accident somewhere and you can get stuck so easily it's nauseating, public transport is so much more convenient and comfortable even though you share space with other people
As long as it goes where you need to. Europe is full of public transportation but has traffic jams like this just the same.
Ah yes, a perfect example of personal freedom; *being stuck on the goddamm highway.*
Just close two of the lanes and slap some rails on it so we can have a train riding on it like the Green Line in Los Angeles does with 105 freeway
😘😘💯🚝
Houston should do what Dallas do, they have lawnscape and plants covering the medium of freeways so when there an accident the people on the other side don't hold traffic staring and recording on their phones... causing more traffic
This is a great idea
massachusetts do the same.
Or they could demolish all those ridiculously wide freeways. Look at Europe. You will never see such a freeway. Still people get around with much more ease than in North America.
Truckers passing through Dallas
@@whiterollone you have public transport, we have private transport
SO incredibly grateful that I’m no longer an urban commuter.
In true urban areas your commute is either a walk or sitting on a train while reading a book, listening to music or taking a short nap. This is what happens when your urban areas aren’t actually urban areas.
Look at these cars joined together like a train, except it's one that can't move. Going for the worst of both worlds?
Houston sucks. I was raised there. Glad I am in Vegas now. Viva Las Vegas!
Swear I feel like I belong in Las Vegas
Man that would be nice. I'm still stuck living here in Dallas, for the time being anyway.
vegas is car centric but it is a pretty unique city, even has a entire culture around one rock singer
I worked on KF at Captain Bennys right next to the train tracks, but it was 1989.
JUST ONE MORE LANE BRO, PLEASE!!! I SWEAR IT’LL FIX EVERYTHING!!!!
In the US it seems the 2 main options are massive ugly highways and congestion or living so remote you have no access to basic stuff around you. It does not have to be that way...
I would live in a cabin in Upper Alaska with no electricity before i move to Houston!
put trains on HOV
stop making more lanes on highways
Hold slow moving cars in the far left accountable
add side walks and bike lanes
make more sub roads to prevent back ups in 1 spot (1960 in humble)
space lights apart a little extra.
keep schools off main roads
keep parents from parking along side roads 2 hours before school even let out.
OH THERES SOOO MUCH STUFF THAT CAN REDUCE TRAFFIC BUT MORE LANES SEEM TO FIX THE PROBLEM EHH?
If they place any kind of rail transit on the HOV lanes, I would love to see some routes from the suburbs like Sugarland to the Medical Center, Galleria, Downtown, etc.
@@ainahko16 Bingo, there shouldnt be no slow drivers in the HOV train lane either, itll always be on time.
I guess someone needs to inform the entrenched TXDOT & their supporters?
26 lanes is obviously not enough, it needs to be an even 30 if you wanna fix traffic.
But why stop at thirty? What we need is 20 lanes on each side, to make it a cool 40 lane highway. Now that will fix our traffic problems for good!
Why stop there? Pave the entire damn state@@Boxhead42
Too many cars need public transportation
No we just need to make it an actual real challenging test in order to get your license then make driving without a license basically punishable by Death
@@yzrippin we can’t make that happen for firearms no way that will happen with cars and so many people drive without license anyway
Definitely at least more HOV lanes
@@jayasmrmore3687 I love a good joke! Never seen HOV cars with Only One Guy Driving -& no one gets stopped for it??
@@Cycology_Major I meant ones that are walled off and have cameras.
Traffic is horrible.
Here me out guys 10 more lanes I promise it will fix this already god awful traffic if it doesn’t STRIKE ME DOWN
*rocking back and forth in asylum* “one more lane I promise, one more lane I promise, one more lane I promise”
just one more lane bro I’ll promise it’ll be different this time just one more lane please bro
Just one more lane, one more lane bro please it’ll fix congestion, please bro one more lane
This is why I like living in my X-Com HQ under the ocean.
ultimate madness....
You can put all the lanes you want but if you don’t fix the drivers it will not do any good
ALLWAYS THAT ONE BAD APPLE THAT RUINS EVERYTHING!
Train
So many comments about this being an example of bad Houston traffic seem to miss the fact 4 of 5 lanes are blocked during rush hour. The same type of backups can happen anywhere under those conditions.
Have they tried adding another lane?
The issue isn't the lanes, its the garbage use of them where they blocked 4 good lanes, never let anyone on the express lanes temporary for free. You could have 532 lanes, but what good are they if a 1 car accident is going to mysteriously block 529 lanes. I blame the Houston police for this.
I'm glad I live in the Netherlands, we don't have massive highways like this here. We have other problems ofcourse, but this ain't one of them.
netherlands didint build there entire city out of a house style meant to be in the countryside, to be fair not every american city is this bad, chicago, NYC, and D.C have decent to good public transport, the same cant be said about most of america
That was yesterday
Where is this world going?? Will it be a happy new year???
Some Say It’s Still Backed Up
Hummm, wouldn't light rail be a great addition to the route?
Blasphemy, you freedom-hating, povo commie
Wouldn’t intelligence and foresight be a great addition to the TXDOT, damnit
TOO MANY PEOPLE IN HOUSTON TEXAS
*wrong infrastructure.
Somehow Tokyo doesn't have these same issues with 30 million more people in the metro area. How have we, the richest country on the planet, not figured out bullet trains and modern commuter rail.
not too many people, not enough transit
Only in ohio SWAG LIKE OHIO
This is why bike lanes need to be banned. It's clear they create too much traffic.
(/s, obviously).
U guys are blessed with a mostly even terrain in your cities, and yet there is no political will to use like 2 lanes of those monstrous highways for a metro/train line. Such a shame.
This is every American city. So car dependent
"just one more lane bro. i promise bro just one more lane and it'll fix everything bro. bro... just one more lane. please just one more. one more lane and we can fix this whole problem bro. bro c'mon just give me one more lane i promise bro. bro bro please i just need one more lane"
Thanks but this gets repeated a dozen times here & on other similar vids by folks who beat us to the punch. How about we just hit THEIR like & make their number more impressive than watering down the comments column
@@Cycology_Major imagine expecting anything decent from a youtube comment section, too optimistic
Holy smokes
Get a railway expansion....
Car dependency + drivers not knowing rules of road = excessive car AND road capacity not being used properly
Look at that smog!
God bless America 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅
And everyone has to slow to look really SMH
THIS TRAFFIC THIS TRAFFIC....
26 minutes lol
This can't get more American. 😂
26 lanes isn't big enough for HOUSTON! l
I heard this country calls itself “developed” 🤣
Everybody gone be late for work. That’s all them boarder people taking over
we need 50 more suburbs with a half mile between every house and 10 more lanes on the freeway, that'll fix it
Just one more lane guys, we'll solve traffic!
When the most massive highway in the nation is still ‘too small’ & yet you call for MORE LANES bahaha. Induced demand solves nothing. It’s long past time to build up alternative means.
It's all those paper tag vihcles and illigals with the conjestion traffic...
I've lived in Houston nearly 35 years and watched it grow. Most are not illegal but come from states where they're stupid enough to think Texas is an improvement.
If you don’t sound silly
With a name like Kevin D. KKKoon…
Nope it's a lack of public transportation and dogshit planning(of every kind)
Looks like fun🫣
They can add 10 more lanes and there will still be traffic
This is why Houston always ranks in the top ten in literally all us traffic rankings
What a life
K lokura se parese a mi medellin bonito lerolerole
Leave the USA
Why are they taking so long to move that car out of the damn way?
I was in there, returning to Houston from San Antonio. Still better than san antonio traffic
Hmm, maybe because Houston is at least improving its public transport, while San Antonio is not?
@@haj8579 that and much more. Houston is like 50 different cities while San Antonio is just one and soo spread out. 15 minutes of driving gets you to far more places in Houston than that same drive time over the inclines of San Antonio. Public transport is 100% homeless in SA while bus riders actually get around decently in Uptown, Montrose, Downtown, Memorial, University Place, Kirby, out in Sugar Land, etc
While Hot-As-Shit San Antonio is simultaneously spread out and cramped.
Im living back in San Antonio though, you cant pay me enough to live in the dangerous air quality of Houston. Last time I was there, I couldnt breathe there outside! Third Ward, but that’s seconds away everywhere!
26 lanes and still congested
If they had more lanes that would have fixed the problem
Add more lanes!!!
can't wait till 100% of texas becomes a car park
so glad to be out of that rat race....
This nightmare costs billions of dollars to build and maintain, and it's my all-time favorite testament to the idea of induced demand.
Induced demand proves that adding lanes allows more people to be on the road and therefore more people can get to where they want to go. If you want a public transport nightmare go live in Chicago or new york and see how much traffic is there.
@@rodrigohackos9119 They expanded the Katy freeway under the guise that it would reduce traffic. It did the opposite. That's not a win, that's a multi-billion dollar sham. TxDOT lies about the benefits of their projects in order to push their disastrous projects forward.
@@rodrigohackos9119 You have literally used the OPPOSITE meaning behind Induced Demand! This concept means the sprawl and congestion NEVER END & require that $$billions$$ are continuously spent to recreate what started the problem in the first place.
@@rodrigohackos9119tell me you’re stupid without telling me you are stupid
@@rodrigohackos9119Technically true, but it also is true of trains, bikeways, and walk routes.
The difference is, these can actually handle the influx of new users without jamming, or can improve service quality with the money they bring in.
Neither is true for roads. A train rider wants increased ridership because this means better stations and more frequent train service. No road rider wants more people on their roads with the hope that they'll build more lanes.
A pretty good sign something is seriously wrong with Houston
Build transit Houston. News traffic bells, whistles and traffic helicopters doesn’t make you a big city.
needs more lanes Houston is lagging behind guys
Glad I live in little ole Mayberry. Even bought the house next to me, keep it empty, for some peace and quiet.
American car-centric planning has been a disaster for the country.
Nope.
Need improvement without polluting air and water 💧
lol, america
Because people from everywhere comes to Houston that’s why!
This proves that more lanes doesent solve rhe problem, you need more entire highways
Move all buses & 18 wheelers to outside lanes.
Coordinate traffic lights.
That will be a start.
Make bigger roads
Pretty ignorant, learn about induced demand.
Just make another freeway ontop of another freeway (Non Stop to Downtown)
ONE ACCIDENT AND BOTH LANES ARE JAMED.
If the usa wants to fix traffic problems, we need to build more public transportation
That's awesome I would be betting on which color goes where like my 25 centshoney bun vrs you banana yogurt pudding
Keep building apartments and letting new people in. Problem solved. Northside don’t got that much bc there’s more houses . Less ppl
Just one more lane would have fixed that!
Living the amerifat nightmare.
katie free weigh will make you loose your mine...
Jesus Christ USA wth are you guys doing?
Just as bad as Los Angeles traffic…
Actually it's worse, much worse. I've driven in Houston and in L.A. many times. L.A. traffic is bad, yes, but not always. Houston traffic is absolutely horrific ALL THE TIME!
Train is Communists
just one more lane i promise it'll fix traffic just one more lane